Optical allusions [electronic resource] : screens, paintings, and poetry in classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) / by Joseph T. Sorensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorensen, Joseph T.

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 40.

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese poetry--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.

Japanese poetry.

Literature in art.

Screen painting, Japanese--History.

Screen painting, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) , Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. In his examination of the important genre later termed screen poetry, Sorensen employs ekphrasis (the literary description of a visual art object) as a framework to analyze poems composed on or for painted screens. He provides close readings of poems and their social, political, and cultural contexts to argue the importance of the visual arts in the formation of Japanese poetics and poetic conventions.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Thinking with Pictures

1. Screens and Poems, Contexts and Images

2. The Efflorescence of Screen Poetry

3. The Dai Is Cast

4. Politics and Precedence

Conclusion: Poetic Conception, Poetic Vision

Appendix A: Screen Poems Predating Kokinshū (905)

Appendix B: Translation from Tales of Times Now Past

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-99575-0

9786613767363

90-04-23151-X

OCLC:

799765649

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004231511 DOI